Back in June, RoboPanda shared the news at Gamma Squad that Vin Diesel informed his trillion Facebook fans through a photo of him on one of those fresh water jetpacks that Marvel had a requested a meeting with him. The star of The Pacifier wrote: “… no idea what for… haha, you probably know better than me…” and that was either a reference to the infamous fan photos of Diesel as the Avengers character, The Vision, or it meant that he can’t read.

Either way, Diesel had that meeting with Marvel yesterday, and while he didn’t reveal any actual details, he did post the above image, and let’s just go ahead and accept that he’s going to play the Vision in The Avengers 2.

Marvel meeting today…

Only the people in the room can tell you what was discussed…

P.s. Thanks to Our page, for pushing to make it happen… you know I get tunnel vision with my work… and after that meeting today… wow!

See? He even made sure to include the word vision in his response, and you could argue that it’s just a coincidence or that he’s not clever enough to purposely make that reference, but this man has tricked the entire world into shoveling him millions of dollars for movies about cars that go VROOOOOOM while the baddest gang of best bros mumbles its way through adventures.

So let’s just quit playing coy and accept that Vin Diesel will play an android in Marvel’s The Avengers 2. It was basically the role he was born for.

Someone told me, since I didn’t read it, that one of the retcons arising from Age of Ultron is that he no longer slapped Janet.

Though that’s why I wished Nathan Fillion would be cast as Hank. See all the fangirls cry at their sex symbol being a wifebeating, genocidal robot-creating hero who doesn’t know when he’s over his head until the last bubbles escape his lips.

You know, in a world filled with hatred and strife, it’s nice that there are some things we can all agree on. Like Denise Richards being the least convincing nuclear physicist in the history of everything.

Most of the Avengers I’ve read has been Vision-free, but what little I’ve seen of him did not interest me (there, wasn’t that nicer than saying: “Vision is lame, he should be this new character I made up called The Sexinator?”).

Anyway, that aside you’ve got presumably five returning characters (although if they’ve got any sense they’ll have Thor off defending Asgard, and Banner limited to a scientific consulting role), plus Magneto’s Marvellous Incest Twins. Throwing in an eighth hero, even if he spends half the film misguidedly evil, is probably not a good idea. Meanwhile, we have no idea who the villain is going to be.